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Klaus Grabowski
Marianne Bachmeier (3 June 1950 – 17 September 1996) became famous in Germany after she shot and killed the murderer of her daughter in an act of vigilantism in the hall of the District Court of Lübeck in 1981. Youth and family Bachmeier grew up in Sarstedt, after her parents fled from East Prussia. Her father had been a member of the Waffen-SS. Her parents divorced, and her mother later remarried. In 1966, at the age of 16, Bachmeier had her first child, who she gave up for adoption as an infant. She became pregnant again at the age of 18 by her then-boyfriend. Shortly before the birth of her daughter, Bachmeier was raped. Her second child was also given up for adoption as an infant. In 1973, Bachmeier's third daughter, Anna, was born. After that birth, Bachmeier had a tubal ligation operation, and she raised her child as a single parent. Murder of her daughter On 5 May 1980, when Anna Bachmeier was seven years old, she had an argument with her mother and decided to ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarstedt
Sarstedt is a town in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has approximately 18,500 inhabitants. Sarstedt is situated 20 km south of Hanover and 10 km north of Hildesheim. Sarstedt station is on the Hanoverian Southern Railway and is served by the Hanover S-Bahn. The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector is located nearby. The former independent municipality Giften has been a part of Sarstedt since 1 March 1974. Mayor The mayor of Sarstedt is Heike Brennecke (SPD). She was elected in September 2014, retrieved 14 November 2014. and re-elected in 2021. The predecessor was Karl-Heinz Wondratschek (SPD). Famous people from Sarstedt * |
Sicily
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1950 Births
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Deaths
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Centennial Olympic Park bombing rect 200 0 400 200 TWA FLight 800 rect 400 0 600 200 1996 Mount Everest disaster rect 0 200 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Nesler
Elena Starr Nesler (August 2, 1952 – December 26, 2008) was an American woman known for shooting and killing, in a court room, the man accused of molesting her son. Her case was reported on throughout the United States, and the Associated Press wrote that the incident "sparked a national debate about vigilantism". Killing of Driver Nesler made headlines on April 2, 1993 when she killed Daniel Mark Driver, who had been accused of sexually abusing five boys, including Nesler's then-six-year-old son, William, in the courtroom of the Jamestown Justice Court. She fired five shots into Driver's head, killing him instantly. Driver had previous convictions for child molestation. According to Jon Thurber of the ''Los Angeles Times'', the finding that Nesler was under the influence of methamphetamine when she killed Driver caused the "sympathetic portrait" of herself portrayed by her defense team to "erode". "She served 3 1/2 years as her case wended its way through trial and appeal be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Plauché
Leon Gary Plauché (November 10, 1945 – October 23, 2014) was an American man known for publicly killing Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped, raped, and molested Plauché's prepubescent son, Jody. The killing occurred on Friday, March 16, 1984, and was captured on camera by a local news crew. For the fatal shooting, Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years' probation and 300 hours of community service and received no prison time. The case received wide publicity because some people questioned whether Plauché should have been charged with murder or let off. Plauché contended that he was in the right, and that anyone in a similar position would have taken the same action. Kidnapping of his son by Doucet Gary Plauché lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was separated from his wife, June, at the time of the shooting. During 1983 and 1984, his 11-year-old son, Jody Plauché, was taking karate lessons with an instructor, 25-year-old Jeffrey Doucet, who had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is For You, Anna
''This is For You, Anna'' is a 1983 play devised by The Anna Collective. Initially developed as a 20-minute production for the Women's Perspective Festival, ''This is For You, Anna'' was re-written into a longer piece that premiered in 1984. The show went on to tour Canada and Britain throughout the 1980s. The play was created collectively in response to the crimes of German woman Marianne Bachmeier, who walked into a courtroom and shot the man who killed her daughter. The feminist play explores themes of violence, revenge, domesticity, and questions the roles of western women at the end of the 20th century. Development ''This is for You, Anna'' was inspired by Marianne Bachmeier's vigilante murder of Klaus Grabowski, the man who was standing trial for the rape and murder of Bachmeier's seven year-old daughter, Anna. The play was developed by The Anna Collective which at various points contained Aida Jordão, Suzanne Odette Khuri, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Patricia Nichols, Baņuta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen White (director)
Maureen White is a Canadian theatre actor, director, and playwright. She was a member of The Anna Project, which created the play '' This is for You, Anna''. White was a founding member of Nightwood Theatre and served as its artistic coordinator from 1987 to 1988. Career In 1979, White co-founded Nightwood Theatre with Kim Renders, Cynthia Grant, and Mary Vingoe. With Nightwood Theatre, White acted in several shows including ''The True Story of Ida Johnson'' (1979), ''Glazed Tempera'' (1980), ''Flashbacks of Tomorrow (Memorias del Meñana)'' (1981), ''Mass/Age'' (1982), Baņuta Rubess' ''Burning Times'' and ''Smoke Damage: A Story of the Witch Hunts'' (both in 1983), ''Peace Banquet: Ancient Greece Meets the Atomic Age'' (1983), Rubess' ''Pope Joan'' (1984), and ''The Last Will and Testament of Lolita'' (1987). Because Nightwood Theatre was originally a collective, White was involved in the creation of several of these works. In May 1980, White played Cellophane in Kim Renders' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baņuta Rubess
Baņuta Rubess (born 1956) is a Canadian theatre director, playwright, and professor. She co-wrote '' This is For You, Anna'' as a member of the Anna Project. Rubess was a co-recipient of the 1988 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for children's theatre for her play ''Thin Ice''. Early life Rubess was born in 1956 in Toronto to Latvian parents. She spent six years living in Germany as a child. Rubess graduated with a BA honours in history and drama from Queen's University in 1977. In 1978, she received a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford. Rubess completed a doctorate of modern history at St Antony's College in 1982. Career In 1982, Rubess co-founded the 1982 Theatre Company in London, England. Rubess was a member a theatre collective called The Midnight Hags, founded by Mary Ann Lambooy. The collective created a piece called ''Burning Times'' which premiered in August 1983 at The Theatre Centre. ''Burning Times'' used quotations from the ''Malleus Malifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She is of partial Lebanese descent through her mother. Life and career MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, '' Fall on Your Knees'' (1996), which was selected for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club in January 2002. MacDonald received the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Drama Award for her play, '' Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)''. MacDonald hosted the CBC documentary series '' Life and Times'' for seven seasons. MacDonald also hosted CBC's flagship documentary program, ''Doc Zone'' for eight seasons. She appeared in the films ''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing'' and ''Better Than Chocolate'', am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aida Jordão
Aida Jordão is a Portuguese-Canadian playwright, theatre director, and academic. She is a co-founder of the feminist theatre group, Company of Sirens, and she co-created '' This is For You, Anna'', a germinal Canadian feminist theatre play. Early life and education Jordão was born in Lisbon, Portugal. At age 9, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada. She has a PhD from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation was titled, "Ines de Castro in Theatre and Film: A Feminist Exhumation of the Dead Queen." Career Jordão is sometimes credited as a member of the Anna Collective, a group of women who co-created the play, '' This is For You, Anna'', for Nightwood Theatre. As Jordão left the collective before the play's completion to work as an actor in Portugal, the play is most consistently credited to Suzanne Odette Khuri, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Baņuta Rubess, and Maureen White. In 1986, Jordão co-founded the feminist theatre grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; ''Northern German Broadcasting'') is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. NDR is a member of the ARD (broadcaster), ARD organisation. Studios NDR's studios in Hamburg are in two locations, both within the borough of Eimsbüttel: the television studios are in the quarter of Lokstedt while the radio studios are in the quarter of Harvestehude (though they are called "Funkhaus am Rothenbaum"), a little closer to the city centre. There are also regional studios, having both radio and television production facilities, in the state capitals Hanover, Kiel and Schwerin. The facility in Hanover is now called the Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen. In addition, NDR maintains facilities at ARD (broadcaster), ARD's national studios in Berlin. Organization and finances Chairmen of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
